Further Adventures In The Hole with Potential, Or "Carry On Up The Chimney"

The fireplace is well on the way to being finished, and before being swept and lined served as a perfect place to display my birthday flowers.

At this point, as you can see, the hole still needed to be widened out.
Work on this commenced in mid-November...

 

 

Oh, the joy of power tools...!

The final push...

Then we had the fun of trying to sweep the chimney with  a remarkable home-made brush on a long bamboo cane. The brush itself had to be attached to a length of line just in case it got stuck...!

The view up the flue!